Reck Friedrich - The Diary Of A Man In Despair - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Hailed as one of the most important works on the Hitler period this is an astonishing compelling and unnerving portrait of life in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944 from a man who nearly shot Hitler himself (The New Yorker) Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock - ribbed reactionary he played the part of a landed gentleman deplored democracy and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author's own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it one of the most important documents of the Hitler period but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.
Title: The Diary Of A Man In Despair
Author(s): Reck Friedrich
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590175866
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 2/12/2013
Category: Fascism & Nazism